Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-29 Thread Ivan Voras
Matthew Dillon wrote: In anycase, as usual I rattle on. If FreeBSD is interested I recommend simply looking at the cool features I added to DragonFly's kernel to make virtual kernels possible. It's really just three major items: Signal mailboxes, a new MAP_VPAGETABLE for

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
: It seems very similar to User Mode Linux, rather than a true VM environment. http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ Each DragonFlyBSD vkernel runs as a process. I don't know why this is even interesting, for anything but kernel developers. Improving BSD jails to the same level as

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Virtual kernels are a cool idea, but I (and I believe practically anyone :using FreeBSD for non-development work) would much rather see a Xen-like :functionality (to be precise: ability to run foreign kernels and :Windows; qemu is too slow) than just a variation of the native kernel. There

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/13/07, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you were working on Xen support in FreeBSD, but web about it (http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/STATUS) has one year old info (support planned in FreeBSD 6.1). So is there any progress, or Xen will not be in any near future release?

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-23 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about implementing something like DragonFly BSD virtual kernels? Matthew Dillon talks about it in is bsdtalk interview: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk098.mp3 It seems very similar to User Mode Linux, rather than a

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-13 Thread Tom Judge
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/12/07, Andras Gót [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/12/07, Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:16:32 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-13 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Kip Macy wrote: On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Free Solaris DVD software kits (Free shipping too): http://www.sun.com/solaris/freemedia Or NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/ Heh, you're still confused about what list your on. I know you

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-13 Thread Kip Macy
I know you were working on Xen support in FreeBSD, but web about it (http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/STATUS) has one year old info (support planned in FreeBSD 6.1). So is there any progress, or Xen will not be in any near future release? Basically Xen did not mature in the fashion that I

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
Free Solaris DVD software kits (Free shipping too): http://www.sun.com/solaris/freemedia Sweet! On 3/12/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd really like to consolidate some underutilized FreeBSD servers. Are their any

Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd really like to consolidate some underutilized FreeBSD servers. Are their any alternative solutions that will enable me to do this kind of stuff with FreeBSD, or would it be better to go with Solaris Dom0 + FreeBSD DomU?

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Ronald Klop
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:16:32 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd really like to consolidate some underutilized FreeBSD servers. Are their any alternative solutions that will enable me to do this kind of stuff with

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Nikolas Britton wrote: Free Solaris DVD software kits (Free shipping too): http://www.sun.com/solaris/freemedia Or NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Free Solaris DVD software kits (Free shipping too): http://www.sun.com/solaris/freemedia Or NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/ Yes that was my next choice after FreeBSD but they don't support the Areca RAID

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Kip Macy
On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Free Solaris DVD software kits (Free shipping too): http://www.sun.com/solaris/freemedia Or NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/ Heh, you're still confused about what list your on.

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: What I'd really love to do is split up each service (httpd, postgres, samba/nfs, ldap/nis, asterisk, etc.) into discrete virtual machines. It's too much work trying to make them all play nice on one system, This is the purpose for which we

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Andras Gót
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/12/07, Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:16:32 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd really like to consolidate some underutilized FreeBSD servers. Are their

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/12/07, Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:16:32 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd really like to consolidate some underutilized FreeBSD servers. Are their any alternative solutions

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/12/07, Andras Gót [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/12/07, Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:16:32 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd really like to